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Remember when I said that AI is a fundamentally fascist technology that cannot be redeemed?
And you were like "no that's alarmist, you should have a more nuanced take"
> Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
@researchfairy Because the AI can use itself?
Earlier, people were saying that AI can’t act on its own with the OpenAI/HuggingFace story.
Seems like yet another story in which the people using the tool are fascist and hope people will stop at the tool instead of looking at the more fundamental issue of racist policing in the West.
@majorlinux Huh? My point was that this tool can't be used for anything but fascism
I'm not saying that the responsibility lies with anyone but the people who are implementing it
@researchfairy And I'm saying that the tool can be used for more things than fascism.
We only see the fascist uses because of the fascists who use it.
If anyone tries to use it for anything else, they get shouted at and shamed into actually highlighting useful aspects of said tools.
@majorlinux We'll have to agree to disagree
@researchfairy "It is a poor carpenter who blames their tools"
WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED
That a technology that is designed to centralize power, remove checks on power and launder biases, would do something like this
Anyway, don't forget, "AI for all" is official Canadian government policy
@researchfairy The enemy is not the Math, the papers, the research. It is the people who use it for evil. Nuclear research saved much more lives than it took. Technology and science isn't evil. The evil thing is how the elites use it.
@researchfairy I don't like AI slop. Saying the entire field is evil is a stretch. it is being used wrongly, though.
@SkyLuke Ah yes, a technology that is designed to centralize power, remove humans from decision points, and hide biases away, this is definitely neutral thing and your take isn't naive as all fuck
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